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United States Patent | 6,230,145 |
Verderamo ,   et al. | May 8, 2001 |
A method of providing bank transaction data for a merchant via the Internet includes displaying on a computer connected to a host a graphical user interface having a plurality of payment services categories. Each of the payment services categories is associated with a processing function performed by the host. One of the payment services categories is then selected. A graphical user interface having links associated with the selected one of the payment services categories is then displayed on the computer. One of the links is then selected. A graphical user interface having entry boxes associated with the selected one of the links is then displayed on the computer. Requested information is then entered into the entry boxes. The requested information entered into the entry boxes is then processed at the host. A graphical user interface having bank card transaction data associated with the processed requested information is then displayed on the computer.
Inventors: | Verderamo; Richard James (Monkton, MD); Cannon; Jonathan Michael (Dover, PA) |
Assignee: | First Data Corporation (Hackensack, NJ) |
Appl. No.: | 185877 |
Filed: | November 3, 1998 |
Current U.S. Class: | 705/35; 705/39; 705/40 |
Intern'l Class: | G06F 017/60 |
Field of Search: | 705/1,26,29,30,34,35,39,40 |
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